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The Settling of the Race 

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Problem Between the 

Black Man and the 

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The Settling of the Race Problem 
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So many people have an idea because 
President Roosevelt entertained a negro 
at the White House that he did it merely 
to get the negroes' votes, but it is a mis- 
take, as nearly all the colored population 
are Republicans. 

The whole way through President Theo- 
dore Roosevelt can trace all his descend-/ 
ants way back to Holland, and can prove! v 
that none of his race ever owned a slave, 
or that a drop of negro blood ever flowed 
in his or his ancestors' veins. He is a 
man of pure white blood, and that is the 
reason he feels that as long as a negro is 
highly educated and of as good qualification 
as a white man, why shouldn't he be ad- 
mitted to hold an office of high position or 
enter society homes, the same as a slant- 
eyed Chinaman? 

President Roosevelt is pure white, and 
no moral coward, and he has done and 
will do for the elevating and education of 




the negro race, as long as a drop of blood 
remains in his system. No other presi- 
dent had the courage, since the reigST 
and death of Abraham Lincoln, or ever 
dared to show his true manhood. Why? 
Because on account of being moral cowards. 

I have read Grover Cleveland, William 
Hearst, Senator Tillman, Senator Gorman, 
Spight. Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of 
Chicago, has pubhcly demonstrated his 
opinion on race prejudice; how he should 
be kept down in life, with a mule and a 
plow, not to be allowed to make any ad- 
vancement in life whatever, but be kept 
as ignorant as a fool. Why? You take a 
mulatto and a full blooded negro, put them 
side by side to work. The mulatto is going 
to make it pretty hot for the negro until 
he quits his job; the mulatto, wants to 
pass off for white ; he does not want a negro 
to come within ten feet of him, and, if he 
is three and three-fourths per cent white, 
he wants to be called white entirely. 

This is where all the prejudice of the 
colored race lies. As long as a drop of 
negro blood flows through a white man's 
or a white woman's veins, they are going 



to keep harping about the race problem.- - 
And what right has a Southerner to set up 
a howl about the black man and woman, 
for have they forgotten about slavery, 
and how it will be 200 years from now 
before they ever can feel friendly towards 
the black man? and it will be when the 
South and North gets to be a pure whita- 
blooded generation. People that are rais- 
ing what the Poll Parrot said should just 
stop one moment and think about slavery,^ 
and perhaps, by tracing their ancestor 
from away back, they can still find 
some traces of negro blood flowing through 
their veins, and it would still be better 
for these professors, ministers, doctors, 
preachers, to drop the race question for 
ever and remember there is onl}^ one 
abiding place in heaven, and if you can^t 
be on good terms with the black man on 
earth, you can't get along with him in 
heaven. I 

Why, 3^ou just can make up your mind 
to meet him in the infernal regions and 
raise all kinds of Poll Parrot languages, 
but on earth the black man and black 
woman is here to stay, and have equal 



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rights given to them. When this genera- 
tion gets to be a pure, white-blooded gen- 
eration then you will do the same as Presi- 
dent Roosevelt — take the negro by the 
hand, elevate and help him to benefit his 
race, the same as Booker T. Washington. 

Now, when I say negro blood flows 
through a Southerner's veins, I don't mean 
every citizen, because some of the South- 
ern men and women have as noble and pure 
hearts as ever beat under human breasts, 
and will and can do everything in their 
power in helping and elevating the col- 
ored race in trying to better their con- 
dition and placing them on the same 
equality; in seeing them educated into 
being good citizens, holding high positions 
in public life, and helping the colored 
women to better themselves in life, instead 
of spending all their days at the washtub, 
in policy shops and saloons. 

But, as I say again, it is only the cross 
in human breed, of mixture of negro blood 
in a white man's and white woman's veins, 
that is causing all this race problem, and 
as long as a mixture of negro blood re- 
mains in his or her veins, they are always 

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going to keep up a howl about their dark 
skined brother or sister who rise to prosperi- 
ty. And as long as men or women have a 
drop of pure white blood remaining in 
their veins, they are going to work side 
by side with the black man and woman, 
point out to him and her every way to 
success, so he or she can go back to their 
race and impart to them the same knowl- 
edge and training, build up a strong nation 
that the world may be proud of, and grasp 
the negro, man or woman, by the hand 
and sa}^, ^'Equality after this/' Negro blood 
has passed out of the white man's and 
woman's veins, and both man and woman 
have all reached a stage of pure white 
blooded generation, then mobbing and 
lynching, burning, as only a half-blooded 
race could think of doing such heinous 
crimes ; when this pure white-blooded gen- 
eration springs up you will never hear any 
more of such cruel doings. Everything 
will be peace and harmony. No more 
hemp neck-tie parties will be heard of and 
no more hatred for their dark-skinned sis- 
ters and brothers, but spoken of as our 
equals. 



You have heard of and read of the 
lynching and burning, shooting of the 
negroes in the states, DeWitt, Arkansas; 
Springfield, Ohio; Indiana; Danville, 111.; 
Missouri; Urbana, 0.? But was it a pure 
white-blooded citizen that applied the 
noose or applied the torch, or led on the 
mob, or cut out the negro's tongue, or bored 
red-hot pokers in his eyes, or chopped off 
his hands and feet, or poured kerosene 
over his body and applied the match, 
while the flames were raging around the 
poor black victim? Stand and watch his 
suffering, jeer and laugh and mock him 
in his agony. 

In the city or state where a pure white- 
blooded population dwells you never hear 
tell of the race prejudice, mobbing, lynch- 
ing, burning at the stake. That occurs only 
in Southern states, or where there is a class 
of Southern people whose descendants 
had owned slaves during slavery, and 
where the mingling of white and negro 
blood got to flowing through their veins, 
and their wanting to pass off for Caucasians, 
and knowing how quick the negro is in 
detecting nations, and afraid of being 

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squealed on, why every crime is as heinous 
and degrading as it can be, why they are go- 
ing to fix it onto their dark-skined brother. 
Their hatred is so great that they are 
going to get rid of him as soon as possible, 
while the pure, white-blooded man in- 
vestigates his charges, gives him full jus- 
tice. 

As soon as I get on a street car and sit 
close to a man or woman I can tell in a 
minute whether they are pure, white- 
blooded, or whether they have negro 
blood flowing through their veins, for no 
sooner have I sat down beside one of them, 
either they will change their seats or move 
their wearing apparel from me as far as 
they can. You have oftentimes heard people 
make the remark that they wouldn't have 
a nigger around the house to work. Just 
as soon as you inquire where were your 
ancestors raised, then by tracing the 
history back of their ancestors you will 
find out that negro blood flows through 
their veins. 

I have studied out his race hatred ever 
since 1879, and I have found out one hun- 
dred out of every thousand could boast of 



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having pure white blood flowing through 
their veins. In 1880 in Akron, 0., Can- 
ton, O., Cleveland, O., and, in fact, all 
over the United States, the mulattos that 
were trying to pass off for Caucasians, got 
up a society that was called The Blue 
Vein Club, and when they started to 
organize it one-half of the women and 
men, which posed as husbands and wives, 
were full-blooded Africans, which brought 
out manv divorce suits, and those that 
were cream color got their skin enameled 
to pass off for white. But there was so 
much trouble in trying to get the exact 
shade of color among the colored race that 
The Blue Vein Club was given up in 
despair, in ever trying to organize it, and 
those that were the mulattos, that were next 
to the color of the white man, worked 
their way through to college and got them- 
selves a fairly good education and ran for 
Congress, and got to be state senators, and 
now are raising what the Poll Parrot said 
on the race question. 

Now, you will see and will know here- 
after what is the cause; and that the first 
starting of race prejudice and hatred be- 

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tween the black man and woman, and the 
white man and woman, is the everlasting 
mingling drop of African blood that through 
the curse of slaver}^ has been flowing 
through their veins. And after all that 
blood has passed out of their veins, and 
this new generation has grown up, and 
this old generation has died out, then 
there will be nothing more known in this 
world as race prejudice, but peace and 
harmony shall dwell instead of war and 
strife between the black man and the 

white man. 

President Theodore Roosevelt is the 
fj 8 onlx white man and president that, since 
/^"^ the death of Abraham Lincoln, ever dared 
<y^' to show his true manhood and moral 
training by entertaining a negro at the 
White House, who had more brains and 
culture than those statesmen and senators 
who were raising such an everlasting rum- 
pus. Mr. Roosevelt, our president, is a 
God-fearing man, noble, true, loyal to 
home, nation and country. He is a man 
whose name will never be forgotten, whose 
name will be handed down from one col- 
ored generation to another, the same as 

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Abraham Lincoln, never to be forgotten 
on account of our president, Mr. Roosevelt, 
being of pure white blood. That is the 
reason why he can't see why a negro, be- 
cause his skin is dark, and he is highly 
educated, should be barred from offices 
and other places of high standing. Hunt 
the United States over and over, no other 
man or woman in this country can produce 
a son as noble, true, loyal, with no dis- 
tinction for nation, but treating all nations 
alike and such good, moral traits as our 
dear president, Theodore Roosevelt. No 
other president will ever ring in history or 
pass from the lips of generation to genera- 
tion as President Roosevelt and Abraham 
Lincoln. 



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